Congratulations for having 50 good years with her. I mourn your loss.
BTW, 'read it at 8:55 PM.
'Been 57 years since I've had to get up at 3 or 4 AM to "take out" a barn
full of cured tobacco.
'Been 32 years or so since I've had to get up that early for a B-52 mission
(they don't seem to tae off very well in daylight for some reason) - it was
almost always "O dark 30." Yep, that's a term we used well over 50 years
ago to mean EARLY - TOO DAMNED EARLY.
Wilton
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerry Archer" <arche...@embarqmail.com>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2013 8:36 PM
Subject: [MBZ] How my marriage began
Here's a true tale. Wilton can save it to read when he gets up with the
chickens in the morning: [:o)
Gerry
As a young 20-something, when I went to work as the night lab tech at the
old Tampa Municipal Hospital, I was in hog heaven; working amongst a
gaggle of young, single nurses. One pretty blackhaired nurse caught my
eye. I would talk to her at every opportunity and sometimes tease her,
but she was so "cool" and concentrated on caring for wards full of poor
patients, my male pride prevented me from asking her out because I thought
she would probably refuse.
Finally one slow night I changed my voice, called her, told her I was the
engineer, and ask her to drop a piece of toilet paper out of a particular
ward window so I could see which way the wind was blowing since I wanted
to blow out the smoke stack.
On her way to the window with the toilet paper she knocked a bedpan off of
a bedside table and woke up the whole ward which undid her hard work of
getting the patients to sleep. Finding that she couldn't open the window,
which
probably hadn't been opened since the hospital was built, she went back to
the nursing station and called the engineer.
"I couldn't get the window open to drop the toilet paper so you can blow
out the smoke stack.", she said.
"What in the world are you talking about?", the engineer said. "Drop
toilet paper? Blow out the smokestack? I didn't call you."
It didn't take long for her to figure out who called her and the lab phone
was soon ringing. She "let me have it" but I was laughing so hard she
started laughing too and that's when I asked for a date and she agreed.
We married the following summer and it lasted 50 years until her death 6
years ago..
Gerry
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